1250-1300;Middle Englishweik < Old Norseveikr; cognate with Old Englishwāc,Dutchweek,Germanweich; akin to Old Englishwīcan to yield, give way, Old Norsevīkja to move, turn, draw back, Germanweichen to yield

denoting or belonging to a class of verbs, in certain languages including the Germanic languages, whose conjugation relies on inflectional endings rather than internal vowel gradation, as look, looks, looking, looked

belonging to any part-of-speech class, in any of various languages, whose inflections follow the more regular of two possible patterns Compare strong (sense 13)